The National Body in Mexican Literature : Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control
1st ed. 2015
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literatures of the Americas
ISBN-10
1137546271
ISBN-13
9781137546272
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 10th, 2015
Print length
199 Pages
Weight
398 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 14.60 x 1.90 cms
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The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Leñero, Juan Rulfo, among others.
The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican narrative canon that challenges assumptions of state hegemony and national identity. Rebecca Janzen analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in works by José Revueltas, Juan Rulfo, Rosario Castellanos, and Vicente Leñero. The book shows how the representation of the body in narrative reflects both the oppression by the State and the Church and how, when the allusions to a collective are considered, the body becomes a site for building resistance to that oppression by providing a site for alternative collectives to emerge.
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